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Jonathan MS Pearce
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Biophysicist: Society will 'eventually accept' designer babies

"Why wait 100,000 years for natural selection to do its job?"

Dr. Eve Makoff
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Slowing to listen at the end of life

Marcia sat up on the side of the bed, a hand on each knee, and braced herself as she leaned forward to open the space in her chest for more air. At 52, she was dying of ovarian cancer that had spread to her liver. The critical organ had failed,

Dr. Eve Makoff
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Narrative medicine: Why stories matter in healthcare

There was a low rumble in the room. I couldn’t hear what anyone was saying above the din, but I feel the excitement in my body even now as my memory-neurons fire. This new batch of future doctors was about to enter terrain more daunting than the fundamentals of